Including jpegs

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I would try the excellent tool jpeg2eps:

    http://www.pdflib.com/products/more/jpeg2ps.html

A word to the wise, though:  JPEG is a lossy compression
scheme.  PNG and TIFF are better formats for line art and
text images (if the *have* to be scanned).  JPEG is best for
photos.

Tom

On 2003/09/08 at 16:07, Mimi Burbank <mimi at csit.fsu.edu> wrote:

> On Sep03 09:40PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > In the past I have always converted jpegs to eps before using them
> > in LaTeX. However, I am at the point where I would like to be able
> > to include jpegs without me doing the conversion first,
> > particularly when a report includes quite a few job photos.  What
> > is the most efficient way to include jpeg files using YandY?  My
> > final product is usually a pdf file.
>
>
> your problem is that Dvipsone and ps2pdf require PostScript files...
> Acrobat Distiller itself can handle the jpg/jpeg files...  There
> *are* other tex programs that allow inclusion of jpg/jpeg files into
> latex documents, but they cannot be previewed using WINDVI, XDVI or
> other such critters....  pdflatex - which is not part of the Y&Y
> system.
>
> I'd stick with the conversion from .jpg to .eps myself - if only
> because the quality of the fonts is so good.
>